16. The Germanic tribes’ migration began in

a) 2 century BC;

b) 2 century AD; c) 12 century AD.

17. Gradation in the Germanic languages was used as

a) a stylistic device; b) a way of word formation.

18. The language from which English acquired the pronouns they, their, them is

a) Scandinavian;

b) Latin;

c) French.

19. The decisive battle between the Normans and the English was

a) at Finn’s Borough;

b) at Hastings;

c) at Brunanburg.

20. The dialect of Middle English which became the basis for Standard English is

a) North-East;

b) London;

c) East Midland.

Тести з літератури

1. One of the most famous Imagist poems: “The apparition of those faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough” is written by

a) Hilda Doolittle;

b) Ezra Pound;

c) T.S. Eliot.

2. Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell that reflects events

a) leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into Stalin era;

b) leading up to World War 2 and then on into the Iron Curtain era;

c) leading up to Khrushchev’s reforms in agriculture and then on into post-Stalin era.

3. William Butler Yeats’ works are centered on

a) Scottish history and folklore;

b) Irish mythology and folklore;

c) Japanese poetry, such as “haiku”.

4. In A Farewell to Arms the name of the main character is

a) Frederic Henry;

b) Robert Jordan;

c) Harry Morgan.

5. To both Eliot and Pound, _______is necessary for the poet to create “new” poetry.

a) knowledge of tradition, the past;

b) focus on “continuous present”, with no regard to future and past;

c) rejecting any ideas about time.

6. Stream-of-consciousness narrative style in which the flowing thoughts and perceptions of protagonists are depicted as they would occur in real life, unfiltered, flitting from one thing to another, and often rather unpredictable is not employed in

a) Mrs. Dalloway by V. Woolf;

b) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence;

c) Ulysses by J. Joyce;

d) To the Lighthouse by V. Woolf;

7. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga is a ______ novel.

a) postmodernistic;

b) realistic;

c) modernistic.

8. In Ulysses, J. Joyce draws many parallels between his characters and Homer’s

a) Achilles and Hector;

b) Odyssey and Achilles;

c) Odyssey and Telemachus.

9. The main themes of Robert Frost’s poetry are

a) social progress, history moving toward a goal;

b) brutality of the city, factories, everyday life of working people;

c) nature, everyday life of common people in the country.

10. The novels _____ are set on one day in the character’s life.

a) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence; To the Lighthouse by V. Woolf;

b) Mrs. Dalloway by V. Woolf; Ulysses by J. Joyce;

c) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by J. Joyce, To the Lighthouse by V. Woolf.

11. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell in the genre of

a) utopia;

b) anti-utopia;

c) fantasy.

12. In “The French Lieutenant's Woman” John Fowles offers multiple endings. Choose the correct number of endings:

a) four (Victorian, sentimental, gothic and existentialist);

b) three (Victorian, sentimental and existentialist);

c) two (Victorian and existentialist).

13. In Graham Green’s “The Quiet American” one of the main characters, Alden Pyle, is

a) a British journalist in his fifties covering the French war in Vietnam;

b) CIA agent working under cover;

c) a police inspector, torn between doing his duty and doing what is best for the country. 

14. Which of the trends in English literature is inspired by Japanese poetry (with its tiny form, such as «haiku»)?

a) Surrealism

b) Impressionism;

c) Imagism.

15. Stephen Dedalus is the main character of

a) «Ulysses» and «The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man»;

b) «Ulysses» only;

c) «Ulysses» and «Finnigans Wake»;

d) «Finnigans Wake» only.

16. In Paul Austers’s “Timbuktu” the predominant postmodernist technique is

a) metafiction;

b) intertextuality;

c) play with the reader.

17. Determine a sub-genre of drama in which G. H. Show made a substantial contribution: the basic place does not belong either to an intrigue or a fascinating plot but to intense disputes, witty verbal duels of its characters. They grasp the depth of problems; force the reader to reflect over existing laws, orders and customs. It is

a) an intellectual drama;

b) a romance drama;

c) a historical drama.